PCI Express

[John Ladle]

i’d guess it would be more related to an apple announcement of the existance of PCI-express. anyone remember ATI’s thermal freeze a few years back?

[Jeff Bernstein]

For those interested in the bleeding edge, you should check out ATI’s new graphics cards. Take a look at all the new features in hardware. https://www.ati.com/products/RadeonX1800/index.html

Of particular interest is the Avivio architecture. Now extrapolate as to how applications can take advantage of it. Oops. I need a tissue! 😎

Apparently there will be both PCI Express and AGP 8x versions.

With all these nice thoughts, now the bad. Whenever Apple has a new motherboard design over the past 21 years, the first 4 months of its life typically suck. After a few dot releases of the OS, the motherboard is finally tamed. So step gently.

Though if you can get a 2x to 3x performance boost, one might step quickly.

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